Indigenous and Black Confraternities in Colonial Latin America : : Negotiating Status through Religious Practices / / ed. by Javiera Jaque Hidalgo, Miguel Valerio.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: De Luca, Candela,; Dierksmeier, Laura,; Farman Sweda, Krystle,; Germeten, Nicole von,; Graubart, Karen B.,; Gómez, Ximena,; Jaque Hidalgo, Javiera,; Kirstin Koeltzsch, Grit,; Maia Borges, Célia,; Masferrer León, Cristina Verónica,; Mello e Souza, Marina de,; Normando Cruz, Enrique,; Reginaldo, Lucilene,; Serna Jeri, Angelica,; Valenzuela Márquez, Jaime,; Valerio, Miguel A.,; Walker, Tamara J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Jaque Hidalgo, Javiera,; Valerio, Miguel,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Connected Histories in the Early Modern World ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.)

Employing a transregional and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores indigenous and black confraternities –or lay Catholic brotherhoods– founded in colonial Spanish America and Brazil between the sixteenth and eighteenth century. It presents a varied group of cases of religious confraternities founded by subaltern subjects, both in rural and urban spaces of colonial Latin America, to understand the dynamics and relations between the peripheral and central areas of colonial society, underlying the ways in which colonialized subjects navigated the colonial domain with forms of social organization and cultural and religious practices. The book analyzes indigenous and black confraternal cultural practices as forms of negotiation and resistance shaped by local devotional identities that also transgressed imperial religious and racial hierarchies. The analysis of these practices explores the intersections between ethnic identity and ritual devotion, as well as how the establishment of black and indigenous religious confraternities carried the potential to subvert colonial discourse.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Connected Histories in the Early Modern World -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Indigenous and Black Confraternities in New Spain -- 1. Religious Autonomy and Local Religion among Indigenous Confraternities in Colonial Mexico, Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries -- 2. Confraternities of People of African Descent in Seventeenth-Century Mexico City -- 3. “Of All Type of Calidad or Color” -- Part II. Indigenous and Black Confraternities in Peru -- 4. Confraternal “Collections” -- 5. “Of Greater Dignity than the Negros” -- 6. African-Descent Women and the Limits of Confraternal Devotion in Colonial Lima, Peru -- 7. Glaciers, the Colonial Archive and the Brotherhood of the Lord of Quyllur Rit’i -- Part III. Indigenous Confraternities in the Southern Cone -- 8. Immigrants’ Devotions -- 9. The Marian Cult as a Resistance Strategy -- 10. Between Excess and Pleasure -- Part IV. Black Brotherhoods in Brazil -- 11. Black Brotherhoods in Colonial Brazil -- 12. Cultural Resistance and Afro- Catholicism in Colonial Brazil -- 13. “Much to See and Admire” -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Index